Ever since Obama's obeisant address to the Arab and Muslim world at Cairo University in June of 2009, the administration's animus towards Israel has taken the form of public snubs, public rebukes and private overtures to some the world's most heinous, Jew- hating regimes. The process usually begins with emissaries who have no official ties to the administration, but who mysteriously show up on the doorsteps of Damascus or southern Lebanon.

They include Robert Malley, whose "black ops" relationship with Obama came to light in 2008 when then candidate Obama "sacked" him for contacts with Hamas.  Malley, an inveterate anti-Israel operative, whose longstanding apologetics for Arafat (Arafat managed to have Malley's father, Simon, re-admitted to France after his ties with terrorist organizations were discovered) nearly got him fired while he was working for the Clinton administration. Thus began Obama's "plausible deniability" tactic vis a vis Israel. The process goes something like this:

• Hire - either openly or covertly - individuals who are hostile to Israel
• Send them on "fact finding" missions to hostile regimes and groups
• Deny that these individuals have officials ties to the administration
• If their activities are discovered, hedge the explanation with comments like:

• When the heat is off, re-hire them, again, openly or covertly, to pursue the same, anti-Israel policies

For their part, the covert operative is scripted to say, in the case of Mr. Malley, for example,

Context is paramount. The "firing" of Malley during the campaign followed an exchange with candidate McCain in which Obama was criticized for being soft on Israel's enemies. Moreover, Malley was cast aside just prior to Obama's performance in front of AIPAC, in which he averred:

How easy it is to fool the Jews.

Ergo, Obama shows Malley the door. But, not for long. Obama, now President, is enjoying the influence of the Soros-funded J Street which has never seen an Arab or Muslim move against Israel that it didn't ultimately like. Jeremy Ben Ami is acting - unofficially, of course- like an officer of The State Department, ferrying Democratic Congressmen to the Middle East and meeting with Arab heads of state.

To the administration's ear, J Street is the only voice in the hall. Time to unleash Malley, Samantha Power and Mara Rudman. Power is official, Malley is still "unofficial" but has strangely become a commuter to Damascus and Tehran pushing the administration's "engagement" line.

Both Malley and Power are proponents of this policy but are adamantly opposed to talking to "settler" groups. Settlers must represent a truly satanic danger far beyond that of Arab terror groups. Malley, in particular, is also a supporter of a Hamas-PLO-Fatah "unity" government, in lock step with Rashid Khalidi. Watch his "prettying up" of Hamas:

In Malley's 2010 testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he declared that:

In other words, he would use Syria as another cudgel with which to batter Israel into more, potentially lethal concessions. In addition, the "unofficial" Obama advisor advises a shower of carrots upon the dictator al Assad:

Ed Lasky has most of the goods on Malley here.

As for Samantha Power, the "official" advisor, her suggestion that an international force be sent into the West Bank in order to "protect" Palestinians and to hamstring Israel is well known.

Next up on the agenda is the rehabilitation of Hezbollah.  Following Obama's counter-terrorism chief, John Brennan's incredible suggestion that the U.S. seek to strengthen the "moderate elements" within the Lebanese terror group, Malley gives an interview to al Jazeera echoing the policy.   Remember, it was Hezbollah's chief, Hassan Nasrallah who infamously said,

Now that's a moderate statement if there ever was one.

It was only a few weeks ago that Brennan, Obama's HDIC (head Dhimmi in charge) delivered this nauseating, pandering, dissembling speech to NYU's Islamic Center:

"Official, Unofficial" advisers? Does it really matter? Obama will probe soft spots, employ surrogates like Malley, direct appointees like Power, but the policy of appeasement and betrayal will not cease.

The only parties unwilling to recognize the fundamental lethality of the Obama administration towards Israel are either too well paid by Soros & Co.(J Street), too mired in fantasy (most of the American Jewish public) or too doctrinally committed to Israel's disappearance (the hard Left of Jewish America).

[Crossposted from JStreetJive.]